{"id":220430,"date":"2026-01-14T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-mohwasa-acknowledges-losses-and-promises-action\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:14:27","slug":"botswana-mohwasa-acknowledges-losses-and-promises-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-mohwasa-acknowledges-losses-and-promises-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Mohwasa Acknowledges Losses and Promises Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Mathathane \u2014 A decision meant to spare residents the pain of displacement has instead reopened emotional wounds for some villagers of Mathathane, following government&#8217;s cancellation of a road construction tender that would have cut through homes and ploughing fields.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Government recently cancelled the works contract for the proposed 30-kilometre Mathathane-Platjan Border Post road and opted instead to upgrade the existing 27-kilometre gravel road from Lekkerpoet Junction to Platjan Border Post to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120465.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathathane \u2014 A decision meant to spare residents the pain of displacement has instead reopened emotional wounds for some villagers of Mathathane, following government&#8217;s cancellation of a road construction tender that would have cut through homes and ploughing fields. Government recently cancelled the works contract for the proposed 30-kilometre Mathathane-Platjan Border Post road and opted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[7069,6394,258,256,4718,2462,9741,53411,257,9343,254],"class_list":["post-220430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-acknowledges","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-losses","tag-mohwasa","tag-news","tag-promises","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}